Development updates and news for Tropicos.org, from the Bioinformatics Department at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Name Matching

Recently, we added simple name matching capabilities to Tropicos®.

Basically, all that you need to do is point to a tab-delimited file that contains the list of names you want to check and click a button.

The first row of the file needs to be a header row of column names. Your file needs to contain a column called "FullNameNoAuthors" (e.g. "Ochlopoa annua"), and/or a column called "FullNameWithAuthors" (e.g. "Ochlopoa annua (L.) H. Scholz"). If your file contains both columns, we will first attempt to match on the name with authors; then (if there is not a match) we will attempt to match on the name without authors.